The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

The hugely ambitious project of mapping the estimated 37.2 trillion cells of the human body is close to reaching a historic milestone – the first draft of the 'atlas.' We got a glimpse at what's ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

The claim: Photo shows the most detailed model of human cell to date. A colorful, intricate diagram circulating on social media is being presented as a groundbreaking picture of a human cell.

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

Here we take a look at a few of our favourite cell images from the past year. 1. Human cell nuclei A team of scientists from New York University used a state-of-the-art fluorescent microscope to ...

Compared to molecular techniques to study single cells, images feel a little like “old school biology,” says Anne ... the Human Cell Atlas published its first draft — a map of over a million ...

While laboratory-conducted research has allowed for countless scientific advancements over the years, it may not come as a surprise that studying cells in a petri dish does not produce quite the exact ...

The Human Cell Atlas has received less attention than the $3 billion Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003 after 15 years of work. But it's equally ambitious.

A team in the Netherlands has managed to capture 3D images of human airway cells infected by SARS-CoV-2 using an extraordinary microscopic technique.The images show how the coronavirus alters the ...

Human stem cells have the ability to develop into any other type of human cell. Getty Images/iStockphoto. The embryo models included a placenta, a yolk sac, ...

To obtain the images, published Wednesday (Sept. 2) in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers first infected human airway cells with SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 ...